Mums and dads working at Aviva are set for an astonishingly good maternity leave scheme.

The company has announced ALL new parents they employ are set for the same amount of paid leave after the arrival of a child.

The insurance firm is massively upping its maternity leave game, now offering men and women equal parental leave.

Promisingly, this means parents will be eligible to the same amount of paid and unpaid time off.

UK employees get 26 weeks leave on full basic pay after the arrival of a child – this applies irrespective of gender, sexual orientation or indeed how they became a parent – whether it’s through birth, surrogacy or adoption.

The new parental policy will be applied to employees who become a parent on or after November 19, 2017 – this policy begins in the UK, Ireland, France, Singapore and Canada.

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The policy includes equal amount of paid and unpaid parental leave when a new child arrives, full-time and part-time employees across all levels of the company, no requirement to share the parental leave between parents and, if both parents are employees of Aviva, they will each have their own entitlement to leave and pay, which they can take at the same time.

The amount of time off and pay will be determined by each local business.

Every parent knows getting babies to sleep through the night can be difficult.

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“I want to live in a world where the only criteria for success is someone’s talent, not their gender. Treating parents equally will help make this happen,” commented group chief executive officer Mark Wilson.

"We want Aviva to be a progressive, inclusive, welcoming place to work.